I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.

The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.

We set out what's going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we'll reassess that... sometimes every week.

Helping people doesn't have to be an unsound financial strategy.

In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and yet all the programs in the past were predominantly focused on men.

Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.

We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.